The Simple Cure for Loneliness
Baya Voce is the host of “The Art of Connection”, a web series looking to experts from across the globe on how to the live your most fulfilled life. In this TEDx talk, Baya reveals a simple tool you...
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An epidemic of middle-aged male loneliness
This is interesting. Vivek Murthy, the surgeon general of the United States, has said many times in recent years that the most prevalent health issue in the country is not cancer or heart disease or...
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The nuclear bunkers designed for luxury living
Downtown lofts are so last year. The space is elegantly furnished. Mr Hall says the standard of the finishes and attention to detail has met with an enthusiastic response from his customers. “When they...
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There was nothing good: An open letter to Canadian Senator Lynn Beyak from...
The Anglican Church of Canada’s excellent open letter to Senator Lynn Beyak on Residential Schools in Canada (many of them run by the Anglican Church) Senator Beyak, you are quite right in saying that...
View ArticleHow Loneliness Begets Loneliness
Social isolation kills, and in the process it makes it harder to reach out to others. A psychologist explains how to break the cycle. “I’m clearly a textbook case of the silent majority of middle-aged...
View ArticleBaristas Reveal How They Really Feel When You Don’t Tip for Coffee
Okay, I generally tip well but at coffee shops, my tip (if I am alone or am just buying a coffee for myself and someone else) is 100%. Now I don’t get fancy coffees. I want a dark roast that is black...
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The Nightmare Scenario for Florida’s Coastal Homeowners
From Bloomberg On a predictably gorgeous South Florida afternoon, Coral Gables Mayor Jim Cason sat in his office overlooking the white-linen restaurants of this affluent seaside community and wondered...
View Article100+ exceptional works of journalism from 2016
Each year, in one of my favorite media traditions, Conor Friedersdorf picks dozens of articles, essays, podcasts, and stories from the previous year “that stood the test of time”. Here’s his...
View ArticleLego to cut 1,400 jobs and ‘reset company’ after sales drop
Lego is cutting jobs after sales drop (how this is possible? Setss are big $$$ and Oliver plays Lego 23 hrs/day) The privately held Danish firm said Tuesday that it “now prepares to reset the company,”...
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Gen-X Women at Midlife: Fear, Anxiety, Anger
Why (and How) It’s Hitting Gen X Women As I cooked dinner the other night, I thought about the women I had been talking to. They’re just entering, slogging through or just leaving their 40s. They...
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